Why are "failed to stat () ... " messages printed to the console at boot time on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Message on console " failed to stat () /dev/mapper/no"

  • Why "failed to stat () ... " messages on console at boot time?

  • Why are these messages shown?

failed to stat() /dev/mapper/no
failed to stat() /dev/mapper/block
failed to stat() /dev/mapper/devices
failed to stat() /dev/mapper/found

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  • initscripts-8.45.33-1.el5 or later, but prior to initscripts-8.45.38-2.el5

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